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Plains of Pain

Cobra Byte Digital · 2023-02-17

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Feb 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Enter a living post-apocalyptic sandbox where the world doesn't wait for you. Build, craft, trade, earn the trust of factions, and forge your own path through a brutal procedural wasteland.

Plains of Pain is an Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer game released in 2023, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 1024 reviews).

93
playing now
83%
positive of 1.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
14
Nexus mods (2.0k downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

93 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Humanity stood at the peak of technological achievement when it all went wrong. For reasons no one could explain, the sun began unleashing colossal solar flares—so powerful they vaporized Mercury and Venus within days. Earth was next. The heat rose, fast and merciless. Panic spread like wildfire. The world’s leaders didn’t save anyone. They saved themselves. In a secret evacuation project, the powerful and the wealthy abandoned Earth, leaving the rest behind to face the inferno. Civilization cracked, then crumbled. What was once a thriving world fragmented into chaos and dust. The land is no(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 93 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 410 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~51/week).
  • · Review velocity up 118% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 15% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 20k–46k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,024 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2026-08-31)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
656520232026Week of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

132282026-09-15 03:00 — 65 players2026-09-16 11:00 — 65 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 101 players2026-09-19 02:00 — 70 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 98 players2026-09-21 17:00 — 87 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 48 players2026-09-24 08:00 — 33 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 79 players2026-09-26 23:00 — 72 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 40 players2026-09-29 14:00 — 58 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 49 players2026-10-02 05:00 — 29 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 90 players2026-10-04 21:00 — 117 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 63 players2026-10-07 12:00 — 86 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 111 players2026-10-10 03:00 — 82 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 115 players2026-10-12 18:00 — 106 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 57 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 93 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
874Feb 2024Aug 2026Feb 2024 — avg 4 · peak 12May 2024 — avg 26 · peak 50Jun 2024 — avg 27 · peak 62Jul 2024 — avg 17 · peak 46Aug 2024 — avg 8 · peak 20Sep 2024 — avg 22 · peak 55Oct 2024 — avg 17 · peak 45Nov 2024 — avg 11 · peak 36Dec 2024 — avg 15 · peak 45Jan 2025 — avg 22 · peak 62Feb 2025 — avg 16 · peak 41Mar 2025 — avg 11 · peak 28Apr 2025 — avg 6 · peak 23May 2025 — avg 37 · peak 86Jun 2025 — avg 19 · peak 50Jul 2025 — avg 33 · peak 104Aug 2025 — avg 48 · peak 112Sep 2025 — avg 42 · peak 119Oct 2025 — avg 32 · peak 67Nov 2025 — avg 28 · peak 61Dec 2025 — avg 41 · peak 87Jan 2026 — avg 40 · peak 90Feb 2026 — avg 79 · peak 184Mar 2026 — avg 78 · peak 163Apr 2026 — avg 61 · peak 142May 2026 — avg 50 · peak 226Jun 2026 — avg 87 · peak 261Jul 2026 — avg 62 · peak 111Aug 2026 — avg 56 · peak 131
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$9.592023-02-172026-08-012023-02-17 — best price $9.592023-08-01 — best price $11.192023-11-21 — best price $10.392023-12-22 — best price $9.592024-03-14 — best price $11.192024-05-13 — best price $9.592024-06-27 — best price $10.392024-10-10 — best price $13.592024-11-27 — best price $11.192024-12-19 — best price $11.992025-01-20 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-05-24 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-09-01 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992025-12-08 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-02-16 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-26 — best price $19.992026-06-07 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-08-01 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

4
achievements tracked
71.1%
earned "Born in the Dust"
10.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading Cards

12 supported languages: English, Czech, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, German, French, Ukrainian, Korean, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1691%4

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvEPvPLootActionSandboxShooterCraftingSurvivalOpen WorldExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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